Sharing: challenging the Content and Media Industries

The technology-fueled 'Culture of Participation and Sharing' is now changing the content and media industries at a very rapid pace. Youtube has changed TV and video, forever; blogging and self-publishing has changed journalism and print media; P2P, web radio and now on-demand streaming has uprooted the recorded music industry. Any successful 'content' player must now develop and put in place a web-centric (and web-native!) business model that is based on unrestricted sharing and user-engagement as THE crucial starting point.